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Cheating the Public

📅 1/20/1918⏱️ 70 minutes0

Overview

John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

Release Date

January 20, 1918

Runtime

70 minutes

Rating

0.0/100

Status

Released

Genres

Drama

Cast

Content Source

Data provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).